Threads: Anne Lindberg + H. L. Hix
September 6–December 13, 2026To inhabit the light-responsive physical space designed by architect Steven Holl for the Archive Gallery at ‘T’ Space, artist Anne Lindberg and poet H. L. Hix position their site-responsive installation Threads.
Throughout their lives as makers, Lindberg and Hix have explored the experiential space identified by philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s declaration that “What can be shown cannot be said,” Lindberg by opening what can be shown onto what cannot be said, Hix by orienting what can be said toward what cannot be said.
Almost from the beginning, their work has informed one another’s creative process. Across more than thirty years, many books and notes and images have passed between Lindberg and Hix, silently building affinity, attunement, and history. Prior collaborations in the 1990s and in 2015 prepare for Threads, and ever-deepening artistic friendship infuses it.
Immersive in scale and meaning, Threads developed through a period of intense daily exchange, during which Hix sent variously sourced passages of text to elicit intuitive, associative responses from Lindberg.
Drawing on that dialogue, Hix composed long thirty-syllable verbal “threads” to appear as light-gathering physical text on the walls of the gallery. Lindberg will build an ephemeral tonal cloud of color and light by pulling thousands of threads taut across the span of the architecture, creating a pair of sculptural forms positioned to allow visitors to walk under and around them. Together the threads, Hix’s by catching and reflecting light, Lindberg’s by activating and animating color, will engage the constantly changing light and shadow conditions in Holl’s architecture to create a dynamic, evocative environment for the viewer.
Images:
Anne Lindberg, unattainable blue, Secrist Beach Gallery
Anne Lindberg, passage, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Anne Lindberg, bloodlines, Everson Museum of Art
Anne Lindberg, the reaching sun, Hangar Y Paris
Anne Lindberg, inhaling color, Bienvenu Steinberg & C Gallery
Anne Lindberg in her Ancramdale studio
